A real estate agent failed to tell buyers about a new road going through a neighbouring property up for sale where the zoning was about to be changed to light industrial - yet the prospective buyers were looking for a quiet, serene place.
A complaints assessment committee of the Real Estate Agents Authority heard the case of unsatisfactory conduct but the agent's name and where she worked were suppressed.
A decision on the case said the agent had told the buyers about the road but the decision found she had not.
"The details of the complaint are that the licensee failed to disclose that there was a proposal to build a road extension running across the property next door which would result in a road bordering one boundary of the property, and development of the presently undeveloped neighbouring land," the decision said.
Prospective buyers of the property complained about the agent."They say the licensee was aware of the proposal by the district council to construct a road on land on the boundary of the property; that she was aware the neighbouring land was to be re-zoned light industrial; and that she failed to disclose the proposed road construction to the complainants," it said.